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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

A letter that is a challenge to the State of Pakistan

Here
is a letter that challenges the state of Pakistan and the politics it protects.
It appeared in The Nation as a Letter on March 10.

Will
this letter ever be taken notice of? Will we the ordinary citizens of Pakistan ever
be able to know the price of the statecraft in Pakistan? Or, the price of the
politics in Pakistan?

The
Letter:

Daylight
larceny

March
10, 2013

I
am an 86 year old man who has fought three epic wars against India, the 1948,
1965 and 1971. In my young days, I had sufficient money, which I deposited in
Quaid-i-Azam fund, to help my dear mother to live comfortably in newly created
Pakistan. I have six sons who all opted to serve our country by joining the
armed forces. I was living quite peacefully until bad luck started when one of
my sons bought a 250 yards plot in Sector C of Bahria Town, Lahore, Pakistan.
He paid all the installments as well as all the undue and unjustified fines yet
has not been given the possession of the said plot. Rather this fraudulent
organization is asking for additional payments every now and then. Neither my
son nor I have any more money to put into this venture run by scoundrels and
their unjustified demands. Is this the country we struggled for? In my entire
life, I never cheated anyone, have performed my duties honestly and this is the
reward I get for living as a truthful man.

Will
anyone take up my cause or has Malik Riaz bought every person in Pakistan? I am
in search of an individual who proves to be an angel and gets my son his due
right. Will my son get his rights during my life? Who will do justice in this
lawless country? Will anybody ban this so-called organization that is fleecing
thousands? It has been learnt that he gifts houses and plots to almost all the
bureaucrats in Pakistan just to keep them quiet and over look his daylight
larceny so that he continues to swindle the public at large. Reports are that
he also gifted President Asif Ali Zardari a bomb proof house in Bahria Town
Lahore.

The Blogger

The blogger cherishes a cosmopolitan spirit; he is a moralist; a rationalist; a philosopher; a political philosopher; he believes in Classical Liberalism, as a Theory of Conduct.
He has substantially contributed to the founding of the first free market think tank of Pakistan, Alternate Solutions Institute.
He is a writer who wrote / published dozens of articles on a variety of issues, and is author of 4 books.
He wrote / published short-stories in Punjabi, a regional language of Pakistan.
He composes poetry both in Urdu and Punjabi, and has already published one collection.